Overburden

Overburden
Sweet Melody
Song – “The Hand of Man” – Magnolia Mountain  

Within the current hegemony of coal, all life that sits atop Appalachian coal is overburden, worthless substance that is merely in the way of coal operators searching for coal. The valuation of life leads to the zero point of the holocaust. 

DILLON 99 (MICHAEL DILLON, UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER, “ANOTHER JUSTICE” POLITICAL THEORY VOL. 27, NO. 2, APRILL 1999, JSTOR)

Otherness is born(e) … of the human way of being.

White Star Holler
In order to conceal its contradictions, neoliberalism masks itself as a commonsense approach to social and economic policy.  Corporations are heralded as the drivers of growth and prosperity and alternative narratives and identities are marginalized to the point of invisibility.
Morgan 2003
Jamie <social sciences associate lecturer, Asia Pacific Studies, Open University, researches on the effects of mainstream economic modeling on World Bank policy> Words of Warning: Global Networks, Asian Local Resistance, and the Planetary Vulgate of Neoliberalism
According to Bourdieu, neoliberalism … new spaces and guises. [End Page 543] 

Sacrificing one group for the sake of the economy perpetuates the genocidal logic that makes populations discardable

Santos, ’03 (Boaventura de Sousa, Professor of Sociology at the School of Economics, University of Coimbra, Bad Subjects, Issue #63, April, bad.eserver.org/issues/2003/63/santos.html,. MX)   
According to Franz Hinkelammert, …poorest countries for four years.

We Have No Voice
Thus our advocacy,
Restrictions should be removed and financial incentives created for personal and community use of bladeless wind turbines in rural areas affected by mountain top mining. 

Poverty and environmental hazards are intricately linked with Mountain Top Mining An approach that encompasses socioeconomic concerns and environmental injustice must be taken to solve.
Hyndryx 11
Michael, PhD, West Virginia University. “Poverty and Mortality Disparities in Central Appalachia: Mountaintop Mining and Environmental Justice” Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice Volume 4, Number 3, Spring 2011, pp. 44-53
Poverty is concentrated … economic contributions to the region.

Renewable energy, namely wind energy, trades off with these harmful fossil fuels.
NRCD No Date;
Natural Resources Council of Maine, No Date
< http://www.nrcm.org/issue_windpower.asp#indepth>
Clean renewable energy ...  power and for heating.

We Have No Power and No Choice
The power of the existing neoliberal structures lies in the realm of beliefs.  Pedagogical practices that challenge this system are an indispensible in challenging neoliberalism.

Giroux 2006

Henry <Global Television Network Chair in English Cultural Studies at McMaster University> Cultural Studies in Dark Times.  www.henrygiroux/online_articles.DarkTimes.htm 

Cultural studies theorists … investment in public life (Couldry 2004).
 

Using the space of academic debate solves.  Academia is uniquely suited to be a space wherein we can challenge domination.

Giroux 2006

Henry <Global Television Network Chair in English Cultural Studies at McMaster University> Cultural Studies in Dark Times.  www.henrygiroux/online_articles.DarkTimes.htm 

While John Dewey, … pedagogy, and resistance.

We are the best approach to critical pedagogy because fostering an understanding of the ways in which public institutions interact with students’ private lives opening up space for a radical transformation from the existing neoliberal order to a more substantive and vibrant democracy. 

Giroux 2006

Henry <Global Television Network Chair in English Cultural Studies at McMaster University> Cultural Studies in Dark Times.  www.henrygiroux/online_articles.DarkTimes.htm 

Against the neoliberal…all pedagogical practices.